Plant Ageing 320-ERS-1PLAL

Substantive content:
Plant ageing processes substantially differ from animal senescence due to the plant cell specific features. However, plant biogerontology is a new and modern area of plant biology that recently is highly investigated. Lecture will focus on mechanisms of plant ageing process on molecular physiological levels with special attention on ageing in model plants and age-dependent plant resilience against abiotic and biotic stresses e.g. green islands formation in response to pathogen and light-induced senescence.
1.Definition and testing of plant ageing
2.Initiation of plant ageing
3.Plant cell ageing and programmed cell death
4.Arabidopsis and crop models of leaf ageing
5.Age-dependent plant resilience against stresses